Andy Crouch: Why physical books, and other links

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• Andy Crouch: Why physical books are better than digital screens -- “If you are reading this book in physical form, you may well remember, hours or days from now, where on the page and how far into the book this very sentence was found...”
• CDC Makes Huge Change to Pediatric COVID Data Used in Media Scare Pieces, Citing ‘Coding Logic Error’ -- “On March 15, 2022, data on deaths were adjusted after resolving a coding logic error. This resulted in decreased death counts across all demographic categories.”
• DeTransitioners Flood Social Media With Testimony, Photos: ‘The Darkest Time In My Life’ -- “The stories will not be easy to accept – medical scandals never are. But that doesn’t mean they should be ignored. Quite the contrary, actually.”
• Duck Duck Gone: DuckDuckGo goes WOKE to censor search content -- “DuckDuckGo’s decision has also encouraged some users to start using Brave, another privacy-focused search engine.”
• Editions of the King James Version and the Criticism of Not Updating It -- “No one on my side of this issue talks about updating the King James Version.”
• First Baptist Church of Marshallville, Macon County, Org. 1848 -- “By the 1840s, Marshallville was at the crossroads of north-south and east-west travel routes, bringing business to the small town. In 1850, the Southwest Railroad laid tracks through here...”
• Here Are 6 Expert-Approved Sleep Habits That Will Keep You From Waking Up In The Middle Of The Night For Good -- “At the end of the day, it’s important to remember to be kind to yourself during this process, since it might take time to get your sleep back on track.”
• HuffPo Writer Thinks She Has The Solution To Higher Gas Prices, Gets Absolutely Wrecked In The Replies -- “Newsflash, Ann, most folks can’t afford your solutions. They are totally impractical for hundreds of millions of Americans.”
• Is Evolution ‘Fake Science’? -- “...if evolution explains everything, does it really explain anything?...according to the BioLogos article, isn’t that one of the characteristics of pseudoscience?”
• Is The Freedom Convoy White Supremacist? -- “...the most insulting thing about Justin Trudeau’s history with black Canadians is that I can’t count how many times he’s suggested we’re stupid.”
• ‘James’ or ‘Jacob’ in the NT? -- “Needless to say, the choice of this spelling is not royalist flattery; for Tyndale was no flatterer of kings.”
• Nearly Half Of IRS Audits Target Poorest Taxpayers, Report Finds -- “The poorest families in the study were audited at five times the rate of other Americans...This unfortunate situation is not new. History is just repeating itself.”
• Rand Paul introduces amendment to eliminate Fauci’s position as NIAID director -- “This will create accountability and oversight into a taxpayer funded position that has largely abused its power, and has been responsible for many failures and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
• Saint Paula Is No Exemplar of the Faith -- “Barr holds forth ‘Saint Paula’ as an exemplar of a more liberated womanhood. She presents Paula as a positive contrast to the narrow teaching of the complementarian woman...”
• Texas Supreme Court Deals ‘Devastating’ Blow To Pro-Abortion Supporters -- “When there is a heartbeat the doctor can detect, the doctor cannot take that life in an abortion. That’s all the bill is about.”
• The Five Cases in the Greek Language -- “...Greek has five different cases. In the English language, a noun’s placement in a sentence doesn’t really impact the way a word looks.”
• The Rise of White Nationalist Hispanics -- “Our website was made for stories like these...our comedic brothers over at The Babylon Bee can't hold a candle to reality anymore”
• The Three Most Important Words I Learned in Seminary: “Textual, Epochal, Canonical” -- “I’m persuaded that unless we learn how to read Scripture along these three horizons—textual, epochal, canonical—we’ll miss the power and wisdom of Christ that’s found in the whole counsel of God.”
• The walls of Jericho -- “Jericho was once thought to be a ‘Bible problem’ because of the seeming disagreement between archaeology and the Bible. When the archaeology is correctly interpreted, however, just the opposite is the case.”
• What Democrats don’t get about gas prices -- “The left thinks oil companies set oil price. Oil companies don’t set prices. If they did, they wouldn’t have let oil prices go negative in 2020.”
• Why Reformed Christians Are Vulnerable To Social Justice -- “Many young Christians didn’t learn how to understand justice from Scripture. So in college, they learned how to understand justice from culture. And now...they interpret Scripture through culture, not culture through Scripture.”